Acquisitions: Rabbit, Skin, Cave, Dredd, Saw

Rabbit HoleLionsgate has acquired North American distribution rights to the emotional drama “Rabbit Hole”.

David Lindsay-Abaire adapted the script from his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play of the same name. Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart star as a husband and wife who fight to save their marriage after the death of their young son.

John Cameron Mitchell (“Shortbus,” “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”) directed and a release is planned around the end of the year.

The Skin I Live InSony Pictures Classics have acquired the US distribution rights to Pedro Almodovar’s next project “The Skin I Live In”.

Antonio Banderas stars as a plastic surgeon hunting down the men who raped his daughter. Shooting begins shortly and SPC will release the project next year.

The deal continues the distributors long-running work with Almodovar, having done the same for nine of his other films like “Volver” and “Broken Embraces”.

The film is described as a “powerful, uncensored, no-holds-barred” account that traces the legendary co-founder of Miramax Films from his early days as a concert promoter on the cold streets of Buffalo to his infamous reputation as one of the last, old-fashioned Hollywood moguls famed for being an asshole in order to do what needs to be done.